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Chatham Academy Principal Tony Lyons said six students for a school with roughly 100 students is more than ever before. Four of the six were girls, which Lyons said is also unusual. He blames mass shootings at parties or into crowds hitting intended and unintended targets.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Tragic, heartbreaking story. But when are you people going to wake up and stop voting for the folks who are doing this to you — and doing this to your own KIDS! At some point you have to stop pointing the finger and blaming everyone else and start looking in the mirror to see who is rally responsible.
Blame the lawless negroes who are doing 90% of the killing
An academy with only 100 students? Only CPS.
Enforce the law Foxx.